Τετάρτη, 14 Μαΐου 2014

Omega - 10000 Lépés 1969 (Qualiton)

Label : Qualiton

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The most successful Hungarian rock band in history, OMEGA is one of the
rare bands to have been known outside in his country. The legend has it
that as albums were released in other countries it became necessary to
brake the language barrier. Their music is a combination of Eastern
European prog with a bit of symphonic and a bit of psyche prog. The
result is a dark orchestrated sound combined with extended
improvisation. Their discography actually starts in the early 60's, and
goes in till today in a more modern register. Several albums were
released in Hungarian as well as English. I'd prefer the "accented"
English version of the albums. The more so, the music remains the
same...

1968 to 1975: OMEGA issued their first Hungarian
"Trombitás Frédi és a Rettenetes Emberek" (1968) that became their first
golden album. The band sealed their success with two subsequent LPS:
"10 000 Lépés" and "Omega 3" / "Éjszakai Országút". Their first
releases, such as "Omega 3" / "Éjszakai Országút", "Élö Omega" and
"Omega 5" were basically pop rock some very good songs. "200 Years After
The Last War" is a brilliant album, solid rock and roll with beautiful
ballads.

1976 to 1981: From 1976 to 1981, they released four
albums of Progressive Spacey Rock with great arrangements: echoes of
PINK FLOYD and ELOY elements. "Time Robber" / "Idõrabló", their best
work work, is the most commercial with various electronic "space
sounds", though "Skrover" / "Csillagok Útján" is probably the most
musically diverse. More albums in the similar style followed:
"Gammapolis" / "Gammapolisz" and "Working" / "Az Arc".

1981 to
today: Afterwards, the band kept the electronic and pop rock genre with
bits of Progressive elements. However, the band's 1980s began to show
the obvious signs of creative stagnation. Soon after it 13th album,
OMEGA disbanded. After 7 years of long silence, the musicians went on to
produce a new album in 1995, "Transcendent" / "Trans and Dance". This
release is a good album with nice keyboards playing. Also check out
their equally superb album .... their latest "Egy Eletre Szol" (1998).
Well..., after nearly 40 years OMEGA is still together, they are LEGENDS
!By progarchives

2 σχόλια:

An instant classic. I already knew about OMEGA, but I've found so many new music in your blog, i'm starting to think this is probably the best thing i've found in the internet in the last 4/5 years. Thank You So much for all the music you've shared.